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11/23/06 Last updated: 11/22/06 1:53 PM A full slate of activities is planned for the re-opening of Fair Grounds Race Course Thursday. The activities begin with a ribbon-cutting at the historic gates […]

11/23/06 Last updated: 11/22/06 7:14 PM AMERICAN GRADED STAKES PREVIEWS TOP FLIGHT H. (G2), 8TH-AQU, $150,000, 3YO/UP, F/M, 1M, 3:48 P.M. (EST), 11-24   1 YOLANDA B. TOO, […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 6:03 PM Committee recommends Excelsior for New York racing franchise New York’s Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Racing recommended on Tuesday that Excelsior Racing […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 7:44 PM The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced that it will install Polytrack as the new main track surface for its 2007 racing season. A five-member committee voted […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 6:22 PM ASHKAL WAY (Ire) (Ashkalani), winner of the Kelso Breeders’ Cup H. (G2) and Bernard Baruch H. (G2) in his last two starts, will attempt to run […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 7:21 PM HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK NOVEMBER 22, 2006 by John Mucciolo Week 3 of the Hollywood Park fall meet was met with its initial potential […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 2:04 PM English champion DIESIS (GB) (Sharpen Up) was euthanized on Saturday at Mill Ridge Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, after fracturing a hip. The 26-year-old stallion was […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 6:47 PM Going through the ring as Lot  No. 491, a Dansili (GB) colt brought 58,000gns to top the opening day of December Foal Sale in Newmarket.  The […]

11/22/06 Last updated: 11/21/06 5:35 PM Woodward S. (G1) hero PREMIUM TAP (Pleasant Tap), the third-place finisher in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), heads a field of 12 entered in Friday’s $500,000 […]

11/21/06 Last updated: 11/20/06 6:52 PM Last year’s Kentucky Oaks (G1) queen SUMMERLY (Summer Squall) probably will make her final career start in the $300,000 Falls City H. (G2), the traditional Thanksgiving […]